DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL

Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni

Deputy Secretary General

Mrs Battaini-Dragoni was born in Brescia, Italy on 13 August 1950. She was elected to the post of Deputy Secretary General in June 2012 and took up her duties in September 2012.

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Deputy Secretary General attends the Council of Europe North-South Prize ceremony

Lisbon,  21 May 2013, Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni, Deputy Secretary General, attended the ceremony of the Council of Europe North-South Prize in Lisbon. The Prize was awarded to two women's rights activists, Monika Hauser, founder of medica mondiale – an NGO which assists women and girls in war and crisis zones throughout the world – and a Pakistani lawyer Asma Jilani Jahangir. Paying tribute to the "courage and exemplary endeavours of two distinguished laureates",...
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Deputy Secretary General addresses the IOC Founding Working Group in Lausanne

Lausanne (Switzerland),  14 May 2013, Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni attended the fourth meeting of the Founding Working Group (FWG) hosted by the International Olympic Committee on the fight against irregular and illegal betting in sport, together with representatives of the sports world, governments, international organisations and betting operators. The Deputy Secretary...
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Deputy Secretary General meets Italian Foreign Minister Bonino

Strasbourg,  16 May 2013, Deputy Secretary General Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni today met the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Italy, Emma Bonino, who attended the 123rd Session of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. They discussed a number of issues related to the co-operation in the Mediterranean, participation of Italy in the "No hate speech"...
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Deputy Secretary General meets Albanian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs

Strasbourg,  16 May 2013, Deputy Secretary General, Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni, met with Ms. Edith Harxhi, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania. They discussed the progress in the implementation of the Council of Europe Albania Cooperation Document 2012-2014, with a specific attention paid to the preparations for the upcoming parliamentary elections in June. ...
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